plans to accept
a luxury Boeing 747-8 plane from the Qatari government is “obviously” a violation of the Constitution’s Emoluments Clause, according to a former White House ethics lawyer.
“Everybody gets a $400 million plane from the government of Qatar. They give them out like the M&M’s acts. And I and Alyssa [Farah Griffin] used to enjoy in the White House mess. I mean, it‘s so obviously, a violation of the emoluments clause,” Norm Eisen, the executive director of the legal advocacy group State Democracy Defenders Fund, said Monday on CNN’s “AC360.”
“I litigated these issues in multiple courts that found Trump had implicated emoluments rules the first time around. It‘s unconstitutional,” Eisen, a vocal critic of the president, told host Anderson Cooper. “And even his own party is calling him out on it.”
The president
confirmed recent news reports that his administration plans to accept a luxury jet from the Qatari royal family.